The article goes into that. Clean Code has some good advice. But it also got bad advice.
Problem is, the good advice is basic. Anyone working in the industry will pick most of these up. All the good advice could be summed up in 10 pages or so.
The bad advice is incredibly bad - and in the worst cases even be counter productive. A newbie won’t be able to tell these advice apart. Some professionals might not either. So they adopt these techniques to their code, and slowly their code turns into an unmaintainable mess of spaghetti.
So no, the book shouldn’t be recommended to anybody. It has already done enough harm to the industry.
The article goes into that. Clean Code has some good advice. But it also got bad advice.
Problem is, the good advice is basic. Anyone working in the industry will pick most of these up. All the good advice could be summed up in 10 pages or so.
The bad advice is incredibly bad - and in the worst cases even be counter productive. A newbie won’t be able to tell these advice apart. Some professionals might not either. So they adopt these techniques to their code, and slowly their code turns into an unmaintainable mess of spaghetti.
So no, the book shouldn’t be recommended to anybody. It has already done enough harm to the industry.